Serendipity 1.3-beta1 released
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Serendipity 1.3-beta1 released
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Serendipity 1.3-beta1 has been released. This beta is considered a release candidate before the final 1.3 release, which is scheduled to be released at the end of this month.
The new release is mainly a feature consolidation release:
* The karma rating plugin has been upgraded to support nice, CSS-based rating graphics and an overall rehaul on the its coding.
* Make the Spartacus plugin be able to use FTP upload, a workaround for SafeMode PHP restrictions. Also add a remote backend for plugin update checks.
* An importer for phpNuke and lifetype has been added.
* Support for pingbacks has been improved a lot. Trackbacks can now be blocked based on Sender IP checks.
* Add better CSS styling for some internal plugins and the embedding of images. Also made the Remote-RSS plugin to be capable of Smarty-Templating.
* Increased Smarty templating features for the {serendipity_fetchPrintEntries} function, to be able to check for entry properties.
* Add support for SQRelay.
The full list of 35 changes to this release are documented within the NEWS file.
Regarding Security, the bundled Smarty library has been updated to version 2.6.19 and adresses an issue in environments where the PHP security mode is required. Also, the new Serendipity release contains tighter backend XSS checks so that environments with untrusted authors can be more secure - many thanks to Hanno Böck for addressing this.
Please test this release and give us feedback here or on the forums so that we can further improve this upcoming version. The files are available on the s9y.org Downloads page. Upgrade pointers can be found in the FAQ and is as easy as just to upload the new files.
Serendipity 1.3-beta1 has been released. This beta is considered a release candidate before the final 1.3 release, which is scheduled to be released at the end of this month.
The new release is mainly a feature consolidation release:
* The karma rating plugin has been upgraded to support nice, CSS-based rating graphics and an overall rehaul on the its coding.
* Make the Spartacus plugin be able to use FTP upload, a workaround for SafeMode PHP restrictions. Also add a remote backend for plugin update checks.
* An importer for phpNuke and lifetype has been added.
* Support for pingbacks has been improved a lot. Trackbacks can now be blocked based on Sender IP checks.
* Add better CSS styling for some internal plugins and the embedding of images. Also made the Remote-RSS plugin to be capable of Smarty-Templating.
* Increased Smarty templating features for the {serendipity_fetchPrintEntries} function, to be able to check for entry properties.
* Add support for SQRelay.
The full list of 35 changes to this release are documented within the NEWS file.
Regarding Security, the bundled Smarty library has been updated to version 2.6.19 and adresses an issue in environments where the PHP security mode is required. Also, the new Serendipity release contains tighter backend XSS checks so that environments with untrusted authors can be more secure - many thanks to Hanno Böck for addressing this.
Please test this release and give us feedback here or on the forums so that we can further improve this upcoming version. The files are available on the s9y.org Downloads page. Upgrade pointers can be found in the FAQ and is as easy as just to upload the new files.
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Re: Serendipity 1.3-beta1 released
Any chance of smartifying both the recent entries and recent comments plugins?????garvinhicking wrote: * Add better CSS styling for some internal plugins and the embedding of images. Also made the Remote-RSS plugin to be capable of Smarty-Templating.
* Increased Smarty templating features for the {serendipity_fetchPrintEntries} function, to be able to check for entry properties.
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Re: Serendipity 1.3-beta1 released
Upgrade from 1.2.1 works like a charm. And it seems all of my plugins are still working.garvinhicking wrote: Please test this release and give us feedback here or on the forums so that we can further improve this upcoming version
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Re: Serendipity 1.3-beta1 released
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Why exactly? What would the benefit be to rectify the additional performance impact and maintainability hassle of another template file?Any chance of smartifying both the recent entries and recent comments plugins?????
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Re: Serendipity 1.3-beta1 released
Why? Flexibility of presentation.garvinhicking wrote:Hi!
Why exactly? What would the benefit be to rectify the additional performance impact and maintainability hassle of another template file?Any chance of smartifying both the recent entries and recent comments plugins?????
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Performance? Isn't that true of any of the plugins that have tpl's, like the rss plugin that just became smarty capable?
The categories plugin has a yes/no field for whether or not to use tpls..... wouldn't that eliminate any performance hit for those not using it?
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Re: Serendipity 1.3-beta1 released
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What is too unflexible with the current CSS approach?Why? Flexibility of presentation.
Yes. But the RSS sidebar plugin is not installed by default. Currently, IMHO only absolutely necessary sidebar plugins of the core are templated.Performance? Isn't that true of any of the plugins that have tpl's, like the rss plugin that just became smarty capable?
It still has the maintainability issue, people wondering why it needs to be enabled etc. I'd really like to keep that low, and I don't see what in those plugins cannot be achieved with CSS in 99,9% of all cases where someone wants to change a thing?The categories plugin has a yes/no field for whether or not to use tpls..... wouldn't that eliminate any performance hit for those not using it?
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Is it right, that the Final 1.3. is been able to download? Or may my few englich-knowledge are not good enough for this --->
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Hi!
I'm lacking a bit of time, but I hope it will be out before easter. Well, I do think it should be released before then.
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I'm lacking a bit of time, but I hope it will be out before easter. Well, I do think it should be released before then.
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